Man shot during parking lot holdup

STOCKTON - A man was shot during a robbery in an East Hammer Lane parking lot about 7 p.m. Sunday, police reported.

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STOCKTON - A man was shot during a robbery in an East Hammer Lane parking lot about 7 p.m. Sunday, police reported.

The victim was in the parking lot of a business in the 1200 block of East Hammer near Palisades Drive when a man wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and baggy black cargo shorts walked up, put him in a bear hug and demanded his wallet. His accomplice - a black man standing 6 feet 1 inch and weighing 170 to 180 pounds and wearing a black hooded sweatshirt - produced a semiautomatic pistol and threatened to shoot if the victim did not comply, according to a report.

The gunman shot the victim in the leg, and both robbers fled on foot. The victim was taken to a hospital for treatment of a non-life-threatening wound, according to police.